Harvard Business
MAY 26, 2016
Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations. They are incentivized to complete operations as quickly as possible. However, until recently there was little evidence on this question in the countries that dominate global markets in low-cost manufacturing. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 22, 2017
For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?
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Harvard Business
JULY 8, 2016
The American textile and apparel industries, for example, will tell you that the evidence can be found in the blood on the floor — their blood, on what used to be their floor. Experts continue to debate whether Chinese businesses are truly disruptive. For some industries in the West, this question appears a bit ridiculous.
MishTalk
AUGUST 27, 2013
How can a business operate when the currency is on a free-fall?" Indian shoppers are not only cutting back on big-ticket purchases such as refrigerators, TVs or expensive branded apparel but even staples including soaps, ketchup and cosmetics. How Can Businesses Operate in A currency Freefall? Crude Daily Chart.
Kates Kesler
DECEMBER 16, 2013
This is especially true in developing markets where competitors can move very quickly with few of the obstacles that big companies face. Business leaders have long been intrigued with the idea of reducing hierarchy, putting greater emphasis on networks, and empowering decisions closer to the market. The global/local tension.
Harvard Business
JULY 30, 2018
. “Any time you start something new like [an innovation initiative], that cuts across many areas, there’s a potential for people feeling like you’re in their backyard,” says Michael Britt, a senior vice president who heads the Energy Innovation Center at Southern Company, a major utility operator.
Kates Kesler
JANUARY 25, 2013
Organizational simplicity is great when the business is simple – when there are only a few products, serving a few markets (in one or two countries). Take Nike, marketing a core brand across a number of consumer categories with hundreds of footwear and apparel products all over the world. Nike’s money-making matrix.
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